Roma said:
why do you care about people who say that Wii gathers dust? i play my Wii more than i do my 360 lol i haven't played it since GOW3 and wont play it until dead space 2 and portal 2 comes out. just ignore them Wii is doomed any way as it has always been and so will 3DS and the next Nintendo home console and it will be called casual and kiddy and will only sell Nintendo games and everything bad and then will get copied ;) so just enjoy the games and laugh at the people talking shit :) |
When you just write someone off as just "talking shit," you're attempting to diminish their points, and the only reason to do that is that you don't like what is being said because you realize it might be true.
I was flat-out wrong about this generation, where the "games" are concerned. I thought the Wii was going to be the greatest thing ever. But consumers didn't understand it, Nintendo fans didn't actually want anything truly different--as was the intent of both the Wii and DS(noted by the numbers of Wii owners who hated "different" franchise titles like modified Call of Duty titles or a different take on Dead Space, and the different, though still amazing, GTA: Chinatown Wars), and because the consumers weren't there, 3rd party companies abandoned the system en masse where hardcore titles are concerned.
I mocked the Xbox360's ridiculous failure rate, but it's all I play now. It's a truly fantastic system, despite it's initial falling on it's own face, and has the most comfortable controller I've ever held--finally usurping the GameCube controller. The games are addictive and impressive, and the Achievement's simply maximize that addictive nature. Where the hell is the Wii's Achievement system? I think it's safe to say that if the 3DS doesn't have something like the Achievement/Trophy systems of the HD machines, then it's safe to say that Nintendo no longer "gets" gamers. Seriously, who doesn't love unlocking these things?
The Wii had some great games--thing is, they're the ones I see many people on here just hating. "MadWorld sucks because it's just a 6-hour game." "Chinatown Wars sucks because it isn't exactly like GTA: Vice City." "Dead Space Extraction sucks because it isn't exactly like the HD Dead Space games." "Hardcore games will sell, and we'll buy them, but only if they're great." These are just really pathetic excuses for skipping some good games.
Not that I mean to dump on the Nintendo fans, but too much of this attitude being delivered has also worked to drive me further from my Nintendo fandom. And I fucking love Nintendo. I want to gough the eyes out of the next jackass that tries to tell me that "there's a market for FPS titles on the Wii, so why don't they make FPS games?" If there was truly a market for FPS titles on the Wii, even a mediocre title like The Conduit would have sold nearly a million copies. As is, Haze, a markedly worse FPS title sold twice as much on a system with half the installed base, and why? Because there's a market for FPS titles on the PS3! Goldeneye is starting pretty well so far--but that's pretty well for an FPS on Wii. Compared to how high-profile FPS titles leap from the gates on other systems? It's still really low.
Anyway...
By the way, when I referenced strength for the 3DS, I meant in sales. Not it's power under the hood. It's power under the hood won't be bad, but it'll still be something between the power of the GameCube and Wii. We shouldn't focus on the raw power of the 3DS, even if it is impressive, because that's just going to lead to disappointment when the ultra-powerful PSP2 launches half a year later.
